Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

I've seen photos of this, the flowers around the cross being watered in this manner when a bishop is serving. He blesses the four directions with the cross, bowing down VERY low, and many "Lord, have mercy"'s (something like 40 for each direction) are sung. I've never heard the explanation for this, though...

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"Hades is not a place, no, but a state of the soul. It begins here on earth. Just so, paradise begins in the soul of a man here in the earthly life. Here we already have contact with the divine..." -St. John, Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco, Homily On the Sunday of Orthodoxy

Here it's a video from monastery Optina in Russia. It's interesting that they do it only for the feast of Elevation in September. On the 3rd Sunday of the Great Lent (at least in the video) not. I've seen this ritual a couple time in the videos, as I can remember all of them were from Russia

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Pray for persecuted Christians, especially in Serbian Kosovo and Raška, Egypt and Syria

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who can watch the watchmen?"No one is paying attention to your post reports"Why do posters that claim to have me blocked keep sending me pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

Here it's a video from monastery Optina in Russia. It's interesting that they do it only for the feast of Elevation in September. On the 3rd Sunday of the Great Lent (at least in the video) not. I've seen this ritual a couple time in the videos, as I can remember all of them were from Russia